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Jun04 12:31

This Post Might Be a Bit of Rant

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I’ve been working on the design of this blog for the last few days (I probably should have been working on writing content, instead, but that’s beside the point). While I’ve finally gotten Wordpress working the way I want, it hasn’t been a fun process. I realize that I ask a lot of software, but sometimes I really wonder: is trying to use the fullest possible set of features so much to ask?

I’ve been trying to get posting via email to work, for quite a while. Well, actually I’m trying to get it working again. I migrated my domain tools to Google Apps and suddenly couldn’t post via email anymore. Why, you ask? Well, it turns out that Wordpress’s out of the box post via email doesn’t work with the SSL used on Gmail’s servers. Does it say this anywhere in the documentation? No. No it doesn’t. The only hint I had was this mention: “Postie supports posting to categories, automatic removal of email signatures, POP3/IMAL (sic) (+SSL) and more.” What does that mean?

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Jun01 22:38

Vacationeering

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I’ve been on vacation lately, so I haven’t had time to sit down and
post on the blog. Partly, this was due to the fact that I was without
Internet and cell (!) access for a week, while Shawna and I were up in
Michigan. A note on that, if I may: we did have some cell service in
Michigan,
but it wasn’t reliable throughout the whole house. Either way, let me
tell you that the iPhone is not a wholly satisfying Internet
replacement. The small keyboard, lack of
del.icio.us access, and no copy/paste make it
really difficult to get any serious Interneting done. That ended up
with me coming home to 800 unread items in Google Reader. Clearly, I
can never leave the presence of the Internet again.

Additionally, I’ve been working on the design of the blog, as you can
see. The new theme takes advantage of a lot more technology and makes
posting to the blog even easier. Also, I’ve started using
disqus to manage the comments. I’m not sure I
like the service, as it sets a really high bar to posting a comment
(creating an account, etc.). So, we’ll see. I like the idea of
trying out Blogging 2.0, but
this whole concept seems silly. As another side note, I want to write
a post called “Book 2.0” with the body: “they got it right the first
time”.

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